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Conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and insurrection -- the committee has yet to make a final decision on those referrals. what it plans to meet this weekend to do so and then announce its decision of the public, televised meeting at one peonies done on monday. but the committee has been forecasting the possibility of referring trump to the justice department for quite some time now. especially after a judge in california agreed with the committee earlier this year that, based on ...

Year. obstruction of congress always at the forefront of possible charges. much of it centered around the pressure on former vice president pence to overturn the election as well as the pressure on the justice department. >> you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj cant and wont snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? >> he responded very quickly and said essentially, thats not what im asking you to do. what im just ...

Theyre pursuing with the criminal referral there is still a partisan elected body. and even a bipartisan committee of congress is still a political body that sort of puts the thumb on the scale of the justice department. so imagine if then the justice department proceeds with charges that they would have pursued anyway, there is at least that question that they were spurred to do what they do on account of the act by congress. so it doesnt matter. again, as ive said on your program before, the j...

Personal involvement and thats obstruction, and to bring it to the forefront. >> so, understanding sort of the role of one committee place against doj, how far could it be to secure convictions on the charges that they are looking at? >> that is a question that only the justice department knows at this point, for a couple of reasons: doj is in the middle of a granfd jury process, that means that they are talking with witnesses. and it is one thing to be an armchair prosecutor and to see only the...

Obstruction of an official proceeding of congress, and conspiracy to defraud the federal government. and committee members have said, for months now, that move this unprecedented would require a unanimous vote by all members. that is something similar to what we saw them do at the last public hearings when they voted to subpoena trump for his documents and testimony. members are saying, now, that they feel confident they have enough evidence to be able to make such an unprecedented decision. com...

The new york times and the washington post have took it hook, line and sinker. yeah, there you know, there are still this was this is a big nothing burger yesterday. >> and this is particularly frustrating to my group. because we spent the last year pressing president biden to do the right thing and stop this obstruction thats been going on for fifty nine years. when congress passed the jfk records act in 1992, they said enough had been time had passed that all record should have a presumption o...

S ruling was strictly about whether the committee could access john eastmans emails. but it is the ruling that they take very seriously. members have said that ruling during their public hearings. the january six committee has been floating the possibility of referring the former president to the department of justice for sometime now. while it would be a dramatic step, the idea of sending a criminal referral of trump to the doj is not a complete surprise. what is new here is the content of thes...

Its important to put that forward to the department of justice. sara murray, cnn, washington. >> our thanks to sara for breaking that down to us. lets discuss with former federal prosecutor michael zeldin. michael, good morning. great to see you, as always. lets break down these three criminal referrals the committee is expected to announce against trump. first, insurrection, obstruction of an initial proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the federal deposit. what do you make of those? >> well, ...

Has also been something that trump has always done. and just, you know, taken their money, any way that he can. so, this is a way of taking peoples money. >> he has been innovative in that regard. molly, on-month-old, it will be all eyes on the january 6th committee. sources tell cnn they include obstruction, conspiracy to defraud the united states. do you expect the final report will have the impact that the committee hopes? might folks be getting hopes up in all of this? ultimately, it will be...

Not to issue these criminal referrals for the justice department for far president trump would have to be unanimous. all committee members agreeing to do this. and now, ahead of this last public meeting they are going to have on monday, committee members say they are confident they have enough evidence to make such an unprecedented decision. >> this morning, all eyes on the january 6th committee as its year and a half long investigation comes to a close. members using the weekend to complete a l...